Too tired

By Stuart Lowe on Sunday 08th Oct 2017 (20:59 UTC)

I feel I've been at mile 17 today. I'm so tired. Tired of navigating. Tired of needing to sort things out. I had to have a nap for an hour. An old Portuguese lady was concerned, perhaps thinking I'd collapsed. Through hands signals I said I was just having a sleep.

So I lost an hour from sleeping. I lost time from having to take a convoluted route this afternoon. I didn't get where I'd planned to.

Good bike lane this morning.

More bike lane. It goes on to the horizon.

Ocean spray

Sapping

Nazaré

Ruins and a red carpet

Óbidos

Óbidos

Heading towards Peniche

Charlie and Rob from Australia

As I arrived in Peniche I saw two people with panniers consulting a map. They were Charlie and Rob from Australia. They'd started from Paris two and a half months ago following Eurovelo 3 to the coast near Bordeaux then striking through the mountains from Biarritz.